Kerr's bloom wilts under the heat of catty comments
December 10, 2011 from smh
"Aquarium wall" ... how a US article described Miranda Kerr's personality. Photo: Getty Images
IT WAS only back in August when PS was accused of suffering from tall poppy syndrome after documenting Miranda Kerr's slightly divaesque behaviour, from instructing photographers how to shoot her and erecting her own mini marquee backstage during the David Jones fashion extravaganza.
This week Kerr, who is back in Australia for Christmas with her baby son, Flynn, and husband, Orlando Bloom, discovered tall poppy syndrome was not exclusive to these shores.
Kerr was comprehensively skewered across the pages of New York magazine after agreeing to give an interview in the lead-up to the recent Victoria's Secret parade.
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Under the headline ''178 Minutes With Miranda Kerr'', the model's personality was described as being like an ''aquarium wall'' .
Authors Amy Odell and Jada Yuan interviewed Kerr as she was being transformed into a Victoria's Secret Angel, considered the holy grail of modelling in the US.
They wrote: ''Observed in her natural habitat, model Miranda Kerr, 28, is less a person than a production.
''Staring in at Kerr through the aquarium wall of her personality are two film crews shooting a Victoria's Secret CBS special; a line of photographers; a layer of reporters; publicists; personal assistants; agency representatives; Victoria's Secret spokespeople; costume makers bearing feathers, sequins, and tulle; make-up artists with brushes at the ready; and a lone bodyguard who never takes his eyes off Kerr's $US2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra.''
'' 'This old thing?' she says, batting her eyelids and cooing to no one and everyone in her native Australian lilt. Someone tells Kerr that she's wearing 142 carats of diamonds. 'A hundred and forty-two carats of diamonds?' she says, flashing the cameras a dimpled smile.''
But Kerr does herself no favours, especially when she is quizzed about her self-help book Treasure Yourself, in which she advises young women on self-esteem issues, and how she reconciles that with being a genetically blessed supermodel.
Odell and Yuan write: ''She doesn't see how the Victoria's Secret catalogue could possibly cause anyone self-esteem issues:
'I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.'' lol at the rose comment
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